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US11548475B2
US11548475B2 US16/618,609 US201816618609A US11548475B2 US 11548475 B2 US11548475 B2 US 11548475B2 US 201816618609 A US201816618609 A US 201816618609A US 11548475 B2 US11548475 B2 US 11548475B2
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    • B60S1/08—Wipers or the like, e.g. scrapers characterised by the drive electrically driven
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    • H02K7/1166—Structural association with clutches, brakes, gears, pulleys or mechanical starters with gears where at least two gears have non-parallel axes without having orbital motion comprising worm and worm-wheel

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  • the present invention concerns a gear motor for a motor vehicle wiper system.
  • Gear motors essentially consist of an electric motor coupled to a reduction gear mechanism responsible for reducing the speed of the latter to obtain a high rotation transmission torque.
  • Various types of electric motor may be used in a gear motor and in particular brushless DC electric motors, which have numerous advantages such as long service life, small overall size, low energy consumption and low sound levels.
  • control of these electric motors is more complex compared to electric motor with brushes because to enable correct operation it is necessary to know accurately the angular position of the rotor of the brushless DC electric motor.
  • electric motors of this kind include electromagnetic excitation windings disposed at the level of the stator and fed alternately via an inverter to enable driving of the rotor.
  • the document WO 2016/010023 discloses a gear motor of the above kind for motor vehicle wiper systems using a brushless DC motor.
  • the brushless motor includes a stator with windings for electromagnetic excitation of the rotor and the rotor is rigidly mounted at the end of a rotation shaft. That rotation shaft extends from a casing part for the rotor/stator combination to a casing part receiving the reduction gear mechanism, which is a worm gear.
  • the worm of the worm gear is fastened to the rotation shaft of the rotor and meshes with the worm wheel fastened to the output shaft of the gear motor.
  • the part of the length of the rotation shaft extending from the first bearing to the rotor is guided only by the first bearing, the longitudinal end of the shaft emerging from the other side of the rotor being unguided.
  • Such guidance by means of only two bearings differs from the usual practice that conventionally uses a third bearing to guide the distal end of the shaft in rotation near the rotor.
  • the inventor has observed that guiding the shaft in this way using only two bearings makes it possible to limit the overall size of the gear motor in the direction of the shaft.
  • the omission of the third bearing is not ideal in terms of mechanical forces, and this shortcoming may cause the appearance of vibrations when the rotor is rotated.
  • the intermediate bearing 39 is disposed near the multipole magnet of the device for determining the position of the rotor. Limiting flexing of the shaft further makes it possible to maintain within acceptable tolerances the radial distance between the multipole magnet and each Hall-effect sensor so as to ensure correct operation of the sensor device.
  • An aim of the present invention is to alleviate the aforementioned disadvantages by proposing a gear motor for motor vehicle wiper systems in which the motor shaft is guided in a way that makes it possible to achieve good compactness along the longitudinal axis of the rotation shaft without sacrificing the dynamic balancing of the electric motor.
  • the aim of the present invention is more particularly to propose a gear motor of the above kind in which the axial locking of the bearings onto the rotation shaft can be easily industrialized.
  • gear motor for a motor vehicle wiper system including:
  • a bearing guides the rotation shaft at one of the longitudinal ends of the rotation shaft, having an outer race and an inner race mounted on the rotation shaft, said bearing, disposed inside the combination of the rotor and the stator, being housed in an internal recess in the rotor, and in which a hollow support carries said magnetic elements and is arranged coaxially with and constrained to rotate with the rotation shaft, said hollow support coming to cap said bearing guiding the longitudinal end of the rotation shaft at the electric motor end, and in which said bearing is received in a fixed seat having a bearing face engaging with the outer race of the bearing, on one side of the bearing, the axial position of the bearing on the rotation shaft being locked by axially locking said hollow support onto the rotation shaft, on the one hand, and by the inner race of the bearing bearing on an internal wall of said hollow support, on the opposite side of the bearing to that engaging with said seat, on the other hand, said inner race of the bearing bearing on the internal wall of said hollow support either directly or indirectly via a spacer inside said hollow support, said spacer bearing, said
  • the hollow support includes:
  • the inner race of the bearing bears directly on the internal wall of said hollow support consisting of said connection length section connecting the sleeve and said cylindrical support length section, said connection length section being formed so as not to touch the outer race of said bearing.
  • the sleeve, said substantially cylindrical support length section, and said connection length section connecting the sleeve and said cylindrical support length section consist of a one-piece element such as a shaped sheet metal plate.
  • FIG. 1 is a sectional view on a plane passing through the axis of the rotation shaft of the rotor of the electric motor of a gear motor in which the axial locking of the bearing guiding the rotation shaft at the electric motor end is produced by an elastic ring (such as circlip®) forming a stop ring for the inner race of the bearing disposed inside the hollow support and in accordance with an embodiment that does not conform to the invention,
  • an elastic ring such as circlip®
  • FIG. 2 is a partial view of the gear motor from FIG. 1 showing diagrammatically the axial locking of the bearing by said elastic ring in accordance with the embodiment that does not conform to the invention
  • FIG. 3 is a partial view showing diagrammatically an embodiment of the invention in which the axial locking of the inner race of the bearing on the rotation shaft is produced, on the one hand, by the axial locking of the hollow support thanks to an elastic ring (such as circlip®) received in a groove in the shaft forming a stop ring for the hollow support and by fitting a tubular spacer bearing at one of its ends on the inner race of the bearing and at the other end on the internal wall of said hollow support,
  • an elastic ring such as circlip®
  • FIG. 4 is a partial view of a second embodiment of the invention which differs from that from FIG. 3 in that the axial locking of the hollow support onto the rotation shaft is produced by welding,
  • FIG. 5 is a partial view according to a third embodiment of the invention that differs from that from FIG. 3 in that the axial locking of the hollow support onto the rotation shaft is obtained by locking a multipole magnet itself constituting an abutment for the sleeve of the hollow support,
  • FIG. 6 is a partial view according to a fourth embodiment in which the inner race of the bearing bears directly on the internal wall of said hollow support.
  • gear motor 1 for motor vehicle wiper systems including:
  • a casing 4 can form a protective envelope for the electric motor 2 and said reduction gear mechanism 3 .
  • the electric motor is a brushless DC motor
  • a gear motor of this kind includes a device for determining the angular position of the rotor 20 relative to the stator 21 .
  • a controller (not shown) is configured to generate control signals to supply the electromagnetic excitation windings of the stator 21 with power as a function of the angular position of the rotor determined by the device for determining the angular position of the rotor.
  • the device for determining the angular position of the rotor may include a multipole magnet 5 constrained to rotate with the rotor and one or more Hall-effect sensors (not shown) at fixed positions adapted to detect changes of the magnetic domains of the multipole magnet when the rotor rotates.
  • the reducing mechanism 3 may include a system comprising a worm 30 and a worm wheel 31 , the worm fastened to the rotation shaft 22 of the rotor 20 , the worm wheel 31 fastened to the output shaft of the gear motor. That output shaft is substantially perpendicular to the rotation shaft 22 of the electric motor 2 .
  • the thread of the worm 30 may be in one piece with the rotation shaft 22 , which is typically made of metal.
  • a bearing 23 guides the rotation shaft 22 at the electric motor longitudinal end of the rotation shaft.
  • this bearing 23 is disposed inside the combination of the rotor 20 and the stator 21 and housed in an internal recess in the rotor 20 .
  • This end of the rotation shaft can therefore and advantageously be guided by the bearing 23 without necessitating a shaft length such that its end projects beyond the rotor, as in accordance with the Applicant's prior art.
  • this bearing 23 inside the rotor does not necessitate disposing the bearing surface on the usable length section of the rotation shaft outside the rotor and already used to support the worm and/or to support the multipole magnet 5 : this length section of the shaft outside the rotor may be minimized with the aim of increasing the compactness of the gear motor in that direction.
  • a hollow support 25 carries said magnetic elements 29 on its circumference and is arranged coaxially with and constrained to rotate with the rotation shaft 22 : this hollow support 25 advantageously comes to cap said bearing 23 that guides the electric motor 2 longitudinal end of the rotation shaft 22 .
  • This hollow support 25 may further extend axially beyond the electric motor longitudinal end of the rotation shaft 22 . This in particular makes it possible to dispose said magnetic elements 29 of the rotor at least partly beyond the longitudinal end of the rotation shaft 22 and as shown for example in FIG. 3 .
  • This hollow support is for example a circular body that includes a tubular hollow part with an inside diameter enabling the bearing 23 to be housed inside it, or even a projecting part 40 of the casing 4 the function of which is described hereinafter.
  • This hollow support 25 may further include a sleeve 26 for fixing the hollow support 25 to the rotation shaft 22 .
  • This sleeve 26 comes to be fixed in an intermediate position on the rotation shift 22 between the reduction gear mechanism 3 and the bearing 23 .
  • the inside diameter of the sleeve 26 may be adjusted to suit the outside diameter of the rotation shaft in this intermediate position. This may be a tight fit enabling assembly by shrinking the hollow support 25 onto said rotation shaft 22 .
  • This sleeve 26 may again be adhesively bonded to the shaft 22 .
  • the multipole magnet 5 may take the form of a ring mounted around the rotation shaft.
  • the (north/south) magnetic domains extend in an alternating manner around the circumference of the ring.
  • This multipole magnet 5 may be fastened to said hollow support 25 and arranged around said fixing sleeve 26 of said hollow support 25 .
  • Said hollow support 25 includes a length section 27 to support the magnetic elements 29 .
  • This support length section 27 is substantially cylindrical.
  • the magnetic elements 29 of the rotor are fastened to the external wall of the cylinder.
  • a shoulder 28 in particular in the form of a ring, may extend radially outward at the distal end of said support length section 27 for the magnetic elements.
  • This shoulder 28 forms a lateral abutment for said magnetic elements 29 of the rotor 20 .
  • This shoulder 28 facilitates alignment of the magnetic elements along the same diametral line.
  • the hollow support 25 has a connection length section connecting the sleeve 26 and said cylindrical support length section 27 , which has a greater diameter than the sleeve 26 .
  • This connecting section may have vent openings distributed angularly about the rotation axis, enabling circulation of air through said hollow support, in particular to enable cooling of the bearing 23 .
  • the hollow support 25 may essentially consist of a one-piece element, in particular a sheet metal plate shaped to constitute successively the sleeve 26 , the connecting section, the cylindrical support section 27 , and even said shoulder 28 .
  • the envelope of the casing 4 may include said projecting part 40 directed toward the interior of the casing 4 .
  • this projecting part 40 penetrates into said recess inside the rotor 20 and supports a seat 41 for said bearing 23 .
  • This projecting part 40 is capped by the hollow support 25 , at least by said cylindrical support length section 27 .
  • the projecting part 40 may include a tubular wall 47 extending coaxially with the rotation shaft 22 , the seat 41 for the bearing being formed at the distal end of the projecting part 40 by a housing for the bearing 23 .
  • the housing may be defined by the cylindrical inside surface of the tubular wall 47 and a shoulder 48 extending radially inward from the cylindrical surface.
  • the bearing 23 comprises an outer race, an inner race and rolling elements such as balls, and the seat 41 of the casing 4 may have a diameter adjusted to suit the outer race of the bearing 23 .
  • the wall forming a shoulder may be extended to block completely the recess of the projecting part, where appropriate by forming an extra depth cavity of the housing for the bearing 23 : this extra depth cavity of the housing is intended to receive part of the end of the rotation shaft protruding slightly from the bearing 23 .
  • the casing 4 may include, on the one hand, an envelope part 44 , in particular of cylindrical shape, receiving at least the rotor 20 and the stator 21 of the electric motor 2 , having an opening to the side of the electric motor 2 , and, on the other hand, a closing flange 43 removably closing said lateral opening.
  • said projecting part 40 of the casing 4 may be carried by the closing flange 43 .
  • the envelope part 44 may be a base, in particular made of metal, having fins 46 intended to facilitate the evacuation of heat.
  • This closing flange 43 may include a wall 50 of disk shape extending laterally of the stator and rotor assembly and having a peripheral rim coming to cooperate in sealed manner with a complementary edge of said lateral opening. Said projecting part 40 extends from this disk-shaped wall toward the interior of the internal recess. This disk-shaped wall and the projecting part 40 of the closing flange 43 may consist of a one-piece element, in particular made of metal.
  • the closing flange 43 may be held against the part 44 by means of fixing members passing through lugs on the closing flange 43 and typically screwed into threaded bores in the envelope part 44 .
  • the rotation shaft 22 may be guided in rotation entirely by two bearings 23 , 24 arranged at the two longitudinal ends of the rotation shaft 22 , namely, on the one hand, said bearing 23 at the electric motor end, capped by the hollow support 25 , or even carried by the seat 41 of the projecting part 40 , and, on the other hand, another bearing 24 at the other, reduction gear mechanism 3 longitudinal end of the rotation shaft 22 .
  • the diameter of the rotation shaft 22 at the level of the longitudinal ends supported by the two bearings 23 , 24 may be greater than the diameter of the shaft at the level of the worm 30 . It is therefore possible to increase the resistance to bending of the rotation shaft 22 by a moderate increase in the diameter of the rotation shaft. Satisfactory operation of the reduction gear mechanism is still obtained, in particular with no risk of gear stripping between the worm 30 and the worm wheel 31 of the reduction gear mechanism worm gear, while the rotation shaft is guided in rotation without any guide bearing on a central portion of the shaft.
  • Each bearing 23 or 24 includes an outer race, an inner race and rolling elements such as balls.
  • the inner race of the corresponding bearing 23 (or 24 ) may have an inside diameter adjusted to suit the outside diameter of the shaft at the level of the corresponding longitudinal end.
  • a second seat 42 having a diameter adjusted to suit the outer race receives the bearing 24 guiding the other, reduction gear mechanism 3 longitudinal end of the rotation shaft 22 .
  • FIG. 1 shows one locking possibility that does not form part of the invention, represented diagrammatically in FIG. 2 : locking is provided in the conventional manner by an elastic ring 6 (such as a circlip®) received in a groove in the shaft and forming a stop ring for the inner race of the bearing 23 , the stop ring situated on the side opposite the side of the bearing that bears on the seat 41 .
  • an elastic ring 6 such as a circlip®
  • the elastic ring 6 termed the first elastic ring, is received in a first groove in the rotation shaft 22 and can enable locking of the position of the bearing 23 in the corresponding seat 41 of the casing 4 .
  • a second elastic ring 7 received in a groove in the rotation shaft 22 can enable locking of the axial position of the other bearing 24 in the other seat 42 of the casing 4 .
  • the interior sides of the two elastic rings 6 and 7 may respectively abut against the two bearings 23 and 24 in order to prevent them moving toward one another on the rotation shaft 22 by locking the axial position of each bearing on the axis.
  • the invention advantageously enables this problem to be addressed by proposing a solution for locking the axial position of the bearing 23 on the rotation shaft 22 inside the hollow support 25 that is easy to industrialize. Different variants of this solution are shown by way of illustration in FIGS. 2 to 6 .
  • the axial position of the bearing 23 on the rotation shaft 22 is locked by axially locking said hollow support 25 onto the rotation shaft 22 , on the one hand, and by the inner race of the bearing 23 bearing on an internal wall of said hollow support 25 , on the other hand, on the side of the bearing 23 opposite that engaging with said seat 41 .
  • the support provided by the hollow support 25 on the inner race of the bearing 23 exerts a reaction force that comes to oppose the forces F of the seat 41 on the outer race of said bearing 23 .
  • said inner race of the bearing 23 may bear directly on the internal wall of said hollow support 25 , as shown by way of illustration in FIG. 6 .
  • the inner race of the bearing 23 bears directly on the internal wall of said hollow support 25 consisting of said connection length section connecting the sleeve 26 and said cylindrical support length section 27 .
  • connection length section is advantageously shaped so as not to touch the outer race of said bearing 23 (when the inner race of the bearing 23 bears on that part).
  • the inner race of the bearing 23 may bear indirectly on the internal wall of the hollow support 25 via a spacer 8 inside said hollow support 25 , said spacer 8 bearing respectively on said inner race and the internal wall of the hollow support 25 .
  • Said spacer 8 may be a tubular element, such as a washer, through which the rotation shaft passes.
  • the object of axially locking said hollow support 25 on the rotation shaft 22 is to oppose movement of said hollow support 25 away from said seat 41 .
  • the hollow support 25 may be axially locked onto the rotation shaft 22 by an elastic ring 9 such as circlip® received in a groove in the rotation shaft 22 bearing on the hollow support 25 either directly or indirectly via a spacing part 10 .
  • the elastic ring then constitutes an abutment for said hollow support 25 opposing movement of said hollow support 25 away from said seat 41 .
  • the elastic ring 9 constitutes a stop ring for the hollow support 25 in direct contact with the distal end of the sleeve 26 and opposing movement of said hollow support 25 away from the seat 41 .
  • this elastic ring 9 constitutes a stop ring that opposes movement of said hollow support 25 away from the seat 41 .
  • said hollow support 25 is axially locked onto the rotation shaft 22 by a bead bearing on the hollow support 25 either directly or indirectly via a spacing part 10 .
  • This bead is in one piece with the rotation shaft and constitutes an abutment for said hollow support opposing movement of said hollow support away from said seat 41 .
  • This bead may be produced by the manufacturing techniques known as “rolling”.
  • said hollow support 25 is axially locked onto the rotation shaft 22 by welding said hollow support 25 to the rotation shaft 22 .
  • the welding may be laser or other welding, carried out in particular between the fixing sleeve 26 and the rotation shaft 22 .
  • the hollow support 25 may be shrunk onto the rotation shaft 22 , in particular by shrinking said sleeve 26 onto the rotation shaft 22 . This shrinking may be sufficient in itself to achieve the axial locking of said hollow support 25 .
  • the axial locking is obtained in combination with one of the solutions described above, in particular welding said hollow support to the rotation shaft, adding an elastic ring 9 , or the presence of a bead in one piece with the rotation shaft.
  • said hollow support is axially locked onto the rotation shaft 22 by axially locking said multipole magnet 5 onto the rotation shaft 22 and by said hollow support 25 bearing on said multipole magnet 5 .
  • said multipole magnet 5 constitutes an abutment for said hollow support 25 opposing movement of said hollow support away from said seat 41 .
  • the multipole magnet 5 may be axially locked onto the rotation shaft 22 by an elastic ring 9 received in a groove in the rotation shaft (see FIG. 5 ), or again by the formation of a bead in one piece with the rotation shaft, said elastic ring or the bead constituting an abutment for said multipole magnet 5 opposing movement of said hollow support away from said seat 41 .
  • the multipole magnet 5 may be axially locked onto the rotation shaft 22 by welding said multipole magnet 5 to the rotation shaft 22 or by shrinking said multipole magnet 5 onto the rotation shaft 22 .
  • the invention finds one particular application in a motor vehicle wiper system including one or more wiper blades, a linkage mechanism for driving the wiper blade or blades with a to-and-fro movement, and a gear motor according to the invention the output shaft which drives the linkage mechanism.

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